From the Richmond Dispatch, 11/14/1862, p. 1, c. 3

Mayor’s Court, Thursday, Nov. 13th
- … John Lovell, a bright mulatto, hailing from Augusta Ga., and
heretofore servant of Col. Casey of Kentucky, charged with using
impudent language to the superintendent and watchman of the
Spotswood House, having been punished on his first arraignment for
the offence, was permitted to give ball in $300 for his good
behavior for ten months, and allowed two days to gather up his traps
and leave this section of the Southern Confederacy. A fine pistol
taken from Lovell the Mayor declared confiscated to the use of the
Commonwealth.